Playing war : military video games after 9/11 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Matthew Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : welcome to ludic war
  • Nintendo war 2.0 : towards a new modality of ludic war play
  • The first-personal shooter : narrative subjectivity and sacrificial citizenship in the modern warfare series
  • Fighting the good (preemptive) fight : American exceptionalism in Tom Clancy's military shooters
  • Through a drone, darkly : visions of dystopic ludic war
  • Marketing military realism : selling the gameplay modality of ludic war
  • Promotion of self in everyday strife : gaming capital of the ludic soldier
  • Conclusion : the ludification of war culture.